Fire Inside: 15 years of giving voice to women and transgender prisoners in CaliforniaOctober 14, 2011
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An interview with Diana Block, Pam Fadem and Deirdre Wilson of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners
by Angola 3 News
An update posted Oct. 7 at the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity website stated that "medical conditions are also worsening for strikers throughout the state. We've received reports that after 12 days of no food, prisoners are once again losing severe weight and fainting. One hunger striker at Pelican Bay was denied his medication and consequently suffered a heart attack and is now is an outside hospital in Oregon."
The current hunger strike demonstrates once again that injustice fuels resistance, and California has a rich history of prisoners, former prisoners and their supporters taking a stand. Among these freedom fighters is the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), self-publishers of a newsletter entitled The Fire Inside (archived here).
Health care, motherhood and parenting, lesbianism and transgender experience, immigrant prisoners, racism, parole, spirituality, the school-to-prison pipeline, decarceration strategies and resistance are among the many topics that FI has explored over the years. Since fall 2001, a portion of each newsletter has been translated into Spanish, since many prisoners do not speak or read English.
